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A person with dark hair holds a microphone, wearing a white shirt against a striped background with red text overlays.

A person with dark hair holds a microphone, wearing a white shirt against a striped background with red text overlays. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • mouth open

Animation

  • mouth expression changes

Animation Summary

  • The person's mouth expression changes across frames: open wide, closed, and partially open while holding a microphone.

Composition

  • four text positions
  • striped background
  • person centered

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with dark hair holding a microphone near their mouth, wearing a white shirt, against a striped background. Red text overlays appear in four positions: 'carmen' at top-left, 'hearts' at top-right, 'micky' at bottom-left, and 'yooch un' at bottom-left below 'micky'. The text is pixelated with a white outline. The person's expression changes across frames: in the top-left frame, the mouth is open wide; in the top-right frame, the mouth is closed; in the bottom-left frame, the mouth is partially open. The background is a brown and beige striped pattern. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style.

Description

  • A person with dark hair holds a microphone, wearing a white shirt against a striped background with red text overlays.

Identity Hypotheses

  • micky mouse

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • carmen
  • hearts
  • yooch un

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Named Entities

  • micky

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • micky mouse microphone
  • carmen hearts micky yooch un
  • pixelated red text microphone
  • striped background microphone person
  • mouth open closed partially open

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte or cropping observed

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • carmen
  • hearts
  • micky
  • yooch un

Visually Supported Entities

  • micky

Wordwall

  • person with dark hair
  • holding microphone
  • white shirt
  • striped background
  • red text overlays
  • carmen
  • hearts
  • micky
  • yooch un
  • pixelated text
  • mouth open wide
  • mouth closed
  • partially open mouth
  • brown and beige stripes
  • low-resolution
  • white outline on text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809061659411649062831
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/92/92f7f6cc970fa4ac0fca22468aafcb9631e1f24485552fd0c7792a2a9749f0b2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
92f7f6cc970fa4ac
SHA-256
92f7f6cc970fa4ac0fca22468aafcb9631e1f24485552fd0c7792a2a9749f0b2
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094512

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.923640onnx/unsafe0.094512onnx/nsfw0.051283onnx/nsfl0.043229
Enrichment records (1)
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A person with dark hair holds a microphone, wearing a white shirt against a striped background with red text overlays.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:08 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,042 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 915

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • mouth closed (action, 0.80)
  • mouth open (action, 0.80)
  • partially open mouth (action, 0.80)
  • speaking (action, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • expressive (mood, 0.80)
  • microphone (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • speaking
  • mouth open
  • mouth closed
  • partially open mouth

Animation

  • mouth expression changes

Animation Summary

  • The person's mouth expression changes across frames: open wide, closed, and partially open while holding a microphone.

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • brown
  • beige
  • dark hair

Composition

  • four text positions
  • striped background
  • person centered

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with dark hair holding a microphone near their mouth, wearing a white shirt, against a striped background. Red text overlays appear in four positions: 'carmen' at top-left, 'hearts' at top-right, 'micky' at bottom-left, and 'yooch un' at bottom-left below 'micky'. The text is pixelated with a white outline. The person's expression changes across frames: in the top-left frame, the mouth is open wide; in the top-right frame, the mouth is closed; in the bottom-left frame, the mouth is partially open. The background is a brown and beige striped pattern. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style.

Description

  • A person with dark hair holds a microphone, wearing a white shirt against a striped background with red text overlays.

Identity Hypotheses

  • micky mouse

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • carmen
  • hearts
  • yooch un

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Mood

  • expressive
  • dynamic

Named Entities

  • micky

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • micky mouse microphone
  • carmen hearts micky yooch un
  • pixelated red text microphone
  • striped background microphone person
  • mouth open closed partially open

Objects

  • microphone

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte or cropping observed

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • carmen
  • hearts
  • micky
  • yooch un

Visually Supported Entities

  • micky

Wordwall

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  • holding microphone
  • white shirt
  • striped background
  • red text overlays
  • carmen
  • hearts
  • micky
  • yooch un
  • pixelated text
  • mouth open wide
  • mouth closed
  • partially open mouth
  • brown and beige stripes
  • low-resolution
  • white outline on text
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
200809061659411649062831
Archive entry
200809061659411649062831.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809061659411649062831.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809061659411649062831.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016